The "Phantom" painting

Tech · 27 Nov 2008

£45000. That’s how much it cost a glaswegian art gallery to pay for this bit of canvas. (Obviously the woman isn’t part of the painting, she is the painter.)

Does it not seem a bit ridiculous that in a world where people are starving, not everyone has a home, and there are billions (yes…billions. about 6 billion) of people who do not have access to the internet, that we can spend that amount of money on something that, lets be honest, doesn’t actually look all that good.

Ok, it is a moving bit of fabric. Very good…she can paint without actually having to see it. Lovely. But first of all, what makes it the “phantom painting”? When I saw the news title on the BBC, I thought it meant a picture that was like eery, or had been found behind another or something like that. I didn’t think it would be a picture of a bit of silk.